Cooking grid or shelf



Oct. 19, 1943. w. P. SHEPHERD 2,332,117

COOKING GRID OR SHELF Filed Oct. 2, 1940 MW INVENTOR Patented Oct. 19, 1943 A I UNITED STATES; PATENT OFFICE COOKING GRID 0R SHELF Winfred P. Shepherd, Pasadena, Calif. Application October 2, 1940, Serial No. 359,444

. 1 Claim.

My invention relates to a grid or shelf for use in frying pans, designed to be readily applied Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the frying pan, 7

showing the grid in place, suspended above the bottom of said pan, the section being taken along the line 2-2, as indicated.

The grid or shelf of my invention, herein generally designated by the numeral Ill, preferably comprises a strand, preferably of wire, bent to form a plurality of loops H in substantially the same plane, adjacent loops extending in opposite directions, as shown. Adjacent the ends of the grid Hi and preferably at one or more points therealong, the'wire is preferably bent upward,

as at l2, to form hooks l3 which are adapted to.

hook over the edge or rim of a frying pan to support the grid on the pan. When so placed in a frying pan, the loops ll form an approximately horizontal ledge along the side of the pan at. an elevation above the bottom of the pan. The natural flexibility of the grid permits it to conform to pans of various shapes or sizes.

In use, the grid I0 is simply flexed :to conform to the side of the pan and the hooks l3 are then hooked over the rim. Bacon or other material may be cooked on the entire bottom of the pan and when so cooked, may be placed on the said ledge to keep the food so cooked Warm and to permit surplus grease to drain directly back into the frying pan. The grid or shelf l0 may be removed from the pan by simply'lifting the hooks l3 off the rim of the pan.

It may be desirable,'in' some cases, to make, the shelf in the form of a stamping out of sheet 7 metal, in which case the adjustable feature above described might be lacking, but the other functions thereof would be the same.

I claim as my invention:

A frying pan drain shelf comprising a length of wire formed into a series of alternate loops and adapted to be flexed into a segment of an annulus for positioning against the inner face of the side Wall of the pan so as to conform therewith in curvature, and a plurality of integral hooks extending upwardly from the panengaging edge of said shelf for engagement with the upper edge of the pan to hold the shelf in its flexed, pan-engaging position.

WINFRED P. SHEPHERD. 

